Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 19
अस्माभिर्विहिता तत्र पांसुवृष्टिर्महीपते । नीयते शतधाऽन्यत्र मातृमुक्तेन वायुना
asmābhirvihitā tatra pāṃsuvṛṣṭirmahīpate | nīyate śatadhā'nyatra mātṛmuktena vāyunā
हे महीपते, तेथे आम्ही घडविलेली पांसुवृष्टी मातृकांनी सोडलेल्या वाऱ्याने शंभर प्रकारे अन्यत्र वाहून नेली जाते.
Pretagaṇa/Bhūtas (reporting to King Kuśa; collective speech implied)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Sages (frame implied)
Scene: A visual of dust-clouds being split and scattered into many directions by powerful wind-streams emanating from an unseen circle of Mātṛs; the king is shown listening to the report.
FAQs
Sacred power actively protects tīrthas—negative actions are dispersed and rendered ineffective.
The same Nāgarakhaṇḍa tīrtha where dust-rain is attempted and divinely dispersed; the verse does not name the site.
No explicit prescription; it reports the effect of the Mātṛs’ protective wind.